Playing with Food: The world of video game gastronomy

The Food Programme

BBC

Arts, Food

4.4 • 943 Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Dan Saladino embarks on an epic quest into a world of food-filled computer games, to find out how and why foraging, cooking and eating have become such important components of the genre.

Food has taken on a major role in many modern games - not only in terms of beautiful, Instagram-worthy designs bringing dishes to life on screen, but also food-related quests and story-lines - and even game-based recipe books inspiring players to cook their favourite on-screen meals. And even if you don't play these games yourself, the technology behind such virtual vittles could have a significant impact on how and what we eat in future.

In between battling monsters in huge open-world fantasy adventures such as Elder Scrolls Online, and trying to beat the clock in the cooperative kitchen-based stress-fest Overcooked 2, Dan speaks to games enthusiasts and developers to find out more.

He even finds time to do a little game-inspired cooking himself...

Presented by Dan Saladino. Produced by Lucy Taylor.

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1:02.3	What are we making? We're making sushi so. You've seen the top left, that's the orders that have come in so we've got two for tuna.
1:10.0	So basically what you want to do is go to a crate, pick up fish here on the left.
1:14.0	Bring it to a chopping board.
1:15.0	Have you ever had one of those moments when everything in the kitchen suddenly turns to
1:19.8	chaos?
1:20.8	Well I was having one of those moments.
1:23.0	The right side of the kitchen is currently on fire.
1:26.0	Fortunately, the kitchen on fire isn't real.
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